Petrol v Diesel price

[legrandefromage]

Cars aren't so bad, it's the buses and older lorries that chug out soot.

But, it's all bullshit anyway, new technologies are always quashed while there's money to be made out of oil. Cities run on diesel

And then there's cars. So many with faults and foibles with indifferent and unsupportive manufacturers churning out blobs that we all need so we can feel good about ourselves.

The whole world has gone mad

 

[Mr Panda]

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Dear sirs,

My Subaru (petrol) was drinking at a rate of approx 25mpg before it blew up and became a lump of environmentally evil scrap.

My clunky Octavia (diesel) sips at approx 60mpg and aint deed yet (Panda tempts fate)

What should I do?

Cycle? Ye Gads!

 

[legrandefromage]

My 17 year old 6 cylinder diesel gets around 45-48 and is allegedly good for 1 meeeeeelion miles

 

[NeilM]

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I drive company cars, I have done since I started work in 1979.

For years we all drove petrol cars, until the income tax (benefit in kind) system 'guided' us towards diesels.

I did have a Prius for a while, but that was a mistake, as it is really a city car, and although I could get 70 mpg if I spent the day in Bristol, I would see 45mpg on the motorway, where I spend a lot of travelling time.

Presently I drive and Octavia diesel and get between 57 and 61 ave mpg per tankful, I get around 550 miles per fill and I drive around 35000 per year, every year and always have done.

At my next company car change, if the company offer me a petrol car option and if the Chancellor of the Exchequer via my tax code decides to penalise me less for having a petrol car than a diesel car, then I will choose the former.

I would happily have a hybrid or an electric car, as long as it will get me from A to B, all day, at normal road speeds and is designed to spend time on both motorways and fast roads as well as sitting in traffic jams in towns and cities.

 

[highlandsflyer]

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It is beyond me why Royal Mail and the numerous courier companies are not compelled to use electric vehicles.

Something can be done. Get more of the larger freight onto the railways.

Build more railways.

Use the canals.

Why oh why is Joe Public always the target?

 

[NeilM]

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It is beyond me why Royal Mail and the numerous courier companies are not compelled to use electric vehicles.

Do such vehicles actually exist?

I know some manufacturers are doing R&D, but are there any transit sized vans that will do a couple of hundred miles between charges yet?

I know Bristol City were recently making a lot of noise about hybrid and electric busses that are now being used in the city, but I got there impression they were very much experimental.

 

[legrandefromage]

Why are there no solar panels on electric vehicles? Why is the Nissan Leaf so %$£"ing heavy!!!

RM are now a private company so they cant really be 'compelled' to do anything.

There is a Nissan electric van but its the range that stops 35,000 miles a year.

PS: I do 40,000+ in my own car (cars - depending on how long £1500 of finest shitbox survives)